Spotify Adds Radio Station Functionality to iOS Apps

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All those whole love (and pay) Spotify's mobile apps for iOS can now stream limitless artist, song, playlist or album-based radio stations for free.

Similar to Pandora-style streaming, Spotify users can create their own radio stations by looking up songs, artists, and albums in Spotify's 16 million track database. Spotify will then create a radio station with similar music with no caps on how long users can listen. While listening to tracks, users can "like" music to add to their own playlists so they can find the songs later. Additional features include browsing friends' playlists to add their songs to your own playlist and using Spotify's "recommendation engine" to discover new music according to you listening habits.

Premium users have access to this functionality as well, in addition to all the personalization features that come with a subscription account. But if you are not a "manual playlist" person, and just want to hear good music without cramming your iOS device's storage with music, check out the Spotify blog for details and let us know what you think.